Tunisia's Minister for Public Health Dr. Riza Kashrid opened here today the International Forum for Prevention from Blindness and the First Magrib Forum for the Eastern Mediterranean Region at the headquarters of the International Agency for Combating Blindness. Prince Abdulaziz bin Ahmed bin Abdulaziz, Chairman of the Arab African Council for Eye Medicine and Chairman of the Regional Bureau of the International Agency for Combating Blindness in the Eastern Mediterranean, was present at the opening ceremony. In a key address, Prince Abdulaziz said fighting the disease has become an international and regional goal which could never be reached by a single organization or group. He urged for increasing efforts to make the 2020 initiative a success.